Alexander-the-great Quote by Mary Renault Download Open image ““Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.”” — Mary Renault ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alexander-the-great Genius Imagination Visionary
“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.” — Andrew Chugg Copy Share Image
“Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.” — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
“Alexander did not dare request what he really desired, though he knew that if he asked him for his sweetheart's hand he would have… — Chrétien de Troyes Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was silly, but… — Allison van Diepen Copy Share Image
“The feeling he had had all his young life - that he was brought on this earth for something special - had not left… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“She held the money to her chest and tried to fathom Alexander's heart. He was the man who, a few meters away from freedom,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as he was—a… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Then he’d given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.” — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Alexander’s adamantine will and belief in himself stemmed from the fact that he was willing to out-plan, out-work, and outlast anyone. He didn’t chase… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme skill at… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I was looking… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain of me… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“I am acting, then," continued Alexander, "only on the defensive. The gods, who always favor the right, have given me the victory. I am… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey'… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.” — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
